Dar es Salaam, Dec. 9 -- For years, businesses across Tanzanias manufacturing and distribution landscape have grappled with the inefficiencies of manually processing Local Purchase Orders (LPOs).
Time that could be directed towards expansion, customer service and operational excellence is instead consumed by tedious administrative work.
Across East Africa, companies spend an estimated 20+ hours every week manually keying LPO data arriving as PDFs, emails or handwritten scans into their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems.
In Tanzania, where supply chains are rapidly expanding and competition is stiffening, these inefficiencies create a ripple effect: slower decision-making, delayed deliveries, stock-outs, customer complaints and u...